Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, November 20, 2026
Sadaf Farooqi, Ph.D., FMedSci
Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge University
Genetic and Neural Basis of Human Instinctive Behaviour
The Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lecture in Molecular Genetics
Recommended Readings:
Argente, Jesús, et al. “Hypothalamic obesity: from basic mechanisms to clinical perspectives.” The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 13.1 (2025): 57-68.
Farooqi, Sadaf. “An appetite for research: an interview with Sadaf Farooqi.” Disease models & mechanisms 18.4 (2025): dmm052379.
Li, Yongxiang, et al. “Loss of transient receptor potential channel 5 causes obesity and postpartum depression.” Cell 187.16 (2024): 4176-4192.
Van Der Klaauw, Agatha A., et al. “Divergent effects of central melanocortin signalling on fat and sucrose preference in humans.” Nature communications 7.1 (2016): 13055.
Montague, Carl T., et al. “Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans.” Nature 387.6636 (1997): 903-908.
